[Dovecot] error msgs about missing ssl/tls support

[Kai Vehmanen]

Hi,

I've been just testing 0.99.10.2 and had a really hard time getting the
new Dovecot to start properly. First I thought it was an error in my old
dovecot.conf, but the actual problem turned out to be simply that Dovecot
was compiled without SSL/TLS support (I hadn't noticed this), but
dovecot.conf on the other hand specified SSL/TLS ports.

The error messages might be a bit more informative in this case.  
Currently I only got this to my logs:

--cut--
Nov 18 18:17:00 dovecot: Dovecot starting up
Nov 18 18:17:01 imap-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not given while they should have been
Nov 18 18:17:01 imap-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not given while they should have been
Nov 18 18:17:01 pop3-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not given while they should have been
Nov 18 18:17:01 imap-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not given while they should have been
Nov 18 18:17:01 dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Nov 18 18:17:01 dovecot: child 18482 (login) returned error 89
Nov 18 18:17:01 dovecot: child 18481 (login) returned error 89
Nov 18 18:17:01 dovecot: child 18480 (login) returned error 89
Nov 18 18:17:01 dovecot: child 18479 (login) returned error 89
--cut--

... and Dovecot would exit. Running Dovecot under gdb would just exit 
(even with -F), and segfault if ran under strace. So it took a while 
before I realized that configure had not even detected SSL/TLS... 

Oh well, not a big thing, but still something to keep in mind.

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